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HEQ (Health Economics Questionnaire)

Department of Health Economics (DHE)

Introduction: The HEQ (Health Economics Questionnaire) is a comprehensive, self-reported health economics questionnaire measuring health and social care resource use, medication, absenteeism and presenteeism at work, other productivity impacts as well as socio-demographic background information. It was developed based on several years of international experience with within-trial (mental) health economic evaluations and implemented first in the multi-country European PreDicT study in 2016. Further language versions are also available in Dutch, French, German and Spanish.

To allow for resource-use measurement in times of pandemics, the questionnaire has been updated and complemented with a COVID-19 resource-use measurement module (Module 7) to capture further information about COVID-19 infections, self-isolation and related changes in health services use and employment status in 2020. The HEQ COVID-19 now both reflects the changed service provision landscape and having direct information on any COVID-19 related service use. The HEQ Covid-19 has been implemented for example in the UK-based PAX-BD study and the PAX-D study. Currently it is available in two languages: English and German.

Access: The use of the HEQ is free for non-commercial purposes and is conditional upon correct citation in any resulting work/publication. Samples of the baseline and follow-up English language questionnaires can be viewed here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4559790

The use of the HEQ COVID-19 is free for non-commercial purposes and is conditional upon correct citation in any resulting work/publication. Samples of the baseline and follow-up English language questionnaires can be viewed here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4559752

Citation:
HEQ:

HEQ COVID-19:

Contact: For further information or commercial users, please send an email to dhe@meduniwien.ac.at

Authors and copyright:
HEQ:
© Judit Simon/Susanne Mayer, Medical University of Vienna, 2016
HEQ COVID-19: © Judit Simon/Susanne Mayer, Medical University of Vienna, 2020